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Re: Redirecting screencapture output
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Re: Redirecting screencapture output


  • Subject: Re: Redirecting screencapture output
  • From: Lorenzo <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:25:43 +0200

Yes, currently I save the file, I load it in a NSImage, then I remove it.
It's a little bit slow, but it works.
Anyway, I don't know how to work with fifo.

Best Regards
--
Lorenzo
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> From: Yann Bizeul <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:22:38 +0200
> To: Lorenzo <email@hidden>
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Redirecting screencapture output
>
> As far as I know, screencapture does not provide a way to pipe its
> result to stdout.
> An ugly workaround would be to create a fifo in /tmp/ and save the
> result to this fifo. You would be able to read the fifo to get the file
> back. Like this, you won't have file operation overhead.
>
> Personaly, I would write the screen to /tmp and read it back with
> NSImage, If I don not find a way to handle the screen capture all by
> myself.
>
> Le 21 juil. 04, ` 15:29, Lorenzo a icrit :
>
>> Hi,
>> as you know the unix command "screencapture" saves the main screen
>> content
>> to a PDF file or to the clipboard. Instead I would like to don't save
>> any
>> file (it's slow), don't occupy the clipboard, but I would like to get
>> that
>> output in a NSData or NSImage variable in my application. Is any way
>> to do
>> that? Piping the command? If so, I don't know the sintax.
>> Can someone help me?
>>
>> Actually I call
>> NSArray *args;
>> args = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-x", @"-m", @"filePath", nil];
>>
>> I tried even to add
>> NSPipe *myPipe = [NSPipe pipe];
>> [task setStandardOutput:myPipe];
>>
>> but the length of
>> NSData *dataOut = [[[task standardOutput] fileHandleForReading]
>> availableData];
>> is zero. And the file has been saved anyway.
>>
>> I tried also the following unsuccessfully. I don't know the syntax.
>> args = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-x", @"-m", @"|", nil];
>> What should I write after the pipe "|" ?
>>
>> Any code would be welcome. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> --
>> Lorenzo
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